Thursday, March SI. 19SS
MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE SEVEN
Hews 'Black Market' Described; Sometimes System Can Backfire
By LYLE C. WILSON
United Press Correspondent
Washington (U.PJ The black
market in news was never better
than in the Eisenhower adminis
tration, some of whose members
are dissatisfied with the normal
channels for release of lively
Information.
The term black market is used
because the method of planting
or leaking these news stories is
strictly secret. There is nothing
sinful about the system until it
miscues, as it just has in spec
tacular fashion.
Then big names are exposed as
the alleged sources of embarrass
ing or misleading leaks. Efforts
are made to repair the damage
by denials or fuller explanations.
At that point the news reports
flowing from Washington become
confused and contradictory. If
newspaper readers and radio and
television listeners are not- con
fused it is a wonder, because the
newsmen right here on the spot
frequently are.
A Peek Backstage
For a peek backstage to the
source of some of the big news
you read or hear, this is how the
black market works:
An individual reporter or sev
eral of them want some high
level, background information
on some developing situation.
For example, the situation now
developing around the off-shore
Chinese islands, .Quemoy and
Matsu.
They pick some official and
ask him if he will dine or lunch
with a group of newsmen soon,
if he agrees, the party is on, and
the reporters who set it up invite
secretly a dozen or so of then
associates to be present. The at
tending official usually knows
in advance the identities of those
with whom he is to discuss confi
dentially highly sensitive sub
jects. It is customary that these
meetings are for "background"
only. That is, in making use of
the information obtained, the
reporters may not name the of
ficial who gave it, or sometimes
not even say it came from au
thoritative sources." They must
use it on their own responsibil
ity. More often than not there
are points brought up in such
meetings which are not even for
background. They are off-record
not to be published at all.
A group of newsmen met one
week ago tonight under precise
ly those circumstances. .Their
guest was Adm. Robert B. Car
ney, chief of naval operations
and a member of the Joint Chiefs
of Staff. To shield further the
source of information gained in
such meetings it usually is the
practice to let a day or so elapse
before any use whatever is
made of it.
It was not until last Saturday
morning that the Carney story
broke without, of course, men
tioning the admiral's name. Car
ney's story jarred the country,
jolted Allied foreign offices and
brought none knows what smiles
or frowns in Moscow and Pei
ping. Carney's story was that the
big Red Chinese grab for the
two Chinese islands was coming
around April 15 a war proba
bly was just around the corner.
None was jolted harder than
President Eisenhower. The New
York Daily News is authority
for the statement that James C.
Hagerty, Mr. Eisenhower's press
secretary, secretly met with a
hand-picked group of reporters
on last Monday night to deny the
story in detail and over-all.
However, that may be, big
headlines in Tuesday morning
papers said President Eisen
hower emphatically disagreed
with Carney. These stories did
not say who had revealed Mr.
Eisenhower's point of view
merely that he disagreed.
There was an instance of the
black market miscuing. More
often however, there is no mis
cue. The leaked or planted story
slips easily into the new stream
without the source of the infor
mation accepting public respon
sibility for it.
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